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首先
shǒu xiān
first, firstly

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What does 首先 mean?

首先 (pinyin: shǒu xiān) means first, firstly. It belongs to the official HSK 4 vocabulary (upper intermediate), among the most frequent words of everyday Chinese.

Example with 首先

First, we need to eat.

Character families

Every HSK 1–4 word containing · Every HSK 1–4 word containing

The characters of 首先

shǒucomponent character
xiānfirst, before (HSK 3)

Related HSK 4 words

mèngdream
安排ān páiarrange, plan
报道bào dàoreport, news report
理解lǐ jiěunderstand
负责fù zéto be responsible for
解释jiě shìexplain
至少zhì shǎoat least
Tántalk, discuss

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